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Lab 9 - Severe Weather

The document provides information about severe weather including watches and warnings, derechos, bow echoes, squall lines, and tornadoes. It discusses the roles and responsibilities of the National Weather Service in monitoring and forecasting severe weather potential and issuing different types of watches and warnings. Key details include definitions of derechos, bow echoes, and squall lines as well as when and where they typically occur.

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Lab 9 - Severe Weather

The document provides information about severe weather including watches and warnings, derechos, bow echoes, squall lines, and tornadoes. It discusses the roles and responsibilities of the National Weather Service in monitoring and forecasting severe weather potential and issuing different types of watches and warnings. Key details include definitions of derechos, bow echoes, and squall lines as well as when and where they typically occur.

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Lab 9 – Severe Weather

NAME: ___________________________

Lab 9: Severe Weather

Part 1: Severe Weather Watches and Warnings

Read the article and answer the questions below:

NWS JetStream - Staying Ahead of the Storms (weather.gov)

1. Which office within the National Weather Service is responsible for monitoring and forecasting the
potential for severe weather?

2. What is a convective outlook and what information does it provide?

3. How far out into the future do these outlooks go?

4. What is a public severe weather outlook and when is it issued?

5. What is a mesoscale Discussion and when is it issued?

6. What is a watch (what does it mean, what is it issued for, how large of an areas does it cover)?

7. What is a PDS watch?

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Part 2: Squall Lines Derechos and bow echoes

NWS JetStream - Introduction to Derechos (weather.gov)

1. What are derechos?

2. Where does the name “derecho” come from?

3. Explain the different components (or scales) of a derecho.

NWS JetStream - Types of Derechos (weather.gov)

1. Explain the different types of derechos

NWS JetStream - Where and When do Derechos Occur (weather.gov)

1. When do most derechos occur?

2. When do progressive derechos most often occur?

3. Where do most progressive derechos occur?

4. When do serial derechos occur?

5. Where do warm season derechos typically occur?

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6. Where do cool season derechos occur?

7. What does it mean that derechos occur in family groups?

8. How often do derechos occur?

Part 3: Tornadoes

1. Looking at the map above, where do most of the tornadoes in the world occur?

2. Why do you think they occur in this region so preferentially?

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Using NWS JetStream - Thunderstorm Hazards: Tornadoes (weather.gov) answer the following questions.
You can read just the first paragraph.

1. About how many tornadoes occur in the US each year (on average)?

2. In the US, where do the most number of tornadoes occur? Why?

3. About how many tornadoes occur in Colorado each year on average?

4. What time of year do tornadoes usually occur? Why?

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